Monthly Archives: February 2020

Somewhere on a spectrum that includes gravitational pull on ocean tides and werewolf transformations, it seems coffee plants are oddly affected by the lunar cycle, too. First-of-its-kind research from the…

Countertop roaster maker Ikawa and the coffee trading platform Algrano have teamed up for a crowdfunding campaign to supply coffee growers in three South American countries with sample roasters. According…

Orange, California-based Chapman Crafted Beer has brought to fruition a long-running desire to add a specialty coffee roasting operation. Under the name Chapman Crafted Coffee, the new line of house-roasted…

Coffee drinkers around Cincinnati, Ohio, may be picking up on the scent of some new high-quality coffees, as a pack of specialty coffee professionals has begun operating under the name…

(Por Luis Román. Fotografías y entrevista por Juan José Sánchez) En la película de Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2016), la Tierra es visitada por una decena de naves extraterrestres. Los Estados Unidos…

Three New York-based coffee companies are teaming up to offer fancy coffee hounds the rare opportunity to try a series of coffees where the main differentiating factor is the yeast…

The 2020 World Coffee Roasting Championship (WCRC) will be taking place in Warsaw, Poland, this June 16-18 in conjunction with the Specialty Coffee Association‘s World of Coffee trade show. The…

As producers and consumers alike continue to push the concept of differentiation to the point of absurdity, a coffee operation in Madagascar is now focusing on “bat spit coffee” —…

For former professional NASCAR driver Trevor Bayne, life was once all about speed. Yet with the opening of Mahalo Coffee Roasters last year in Knoxville, Tennessee, Bayne has shifted gears,…

Nonprofit specialty coffee company Refuge Coffee has found a new refuge of its own, settling into a proper brick-and-mortar location in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta. The new shop…